William Dinwiddie

William Dinwiddie (August 23, 1867 – June 17, 1934) was an American journalist, war photographer, writer and colonial administrator in the Philippines. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.^[1]

Early life

Dinwiddie took some courses at Columbia University (1881–1883); and then he worked as a customs inspector in Corpus Christi, Texas (1883–1886). He worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1886–1895); and then he decided to change careers, becoming a foreign correspondent and photographer.^[2]

War correspondent

Western military attachés and war correspondents with the Japanese forces after the Battle of Shaho (1904): 1. Robert Collins; 2. David Fraser; 3. Capt. Francois Dhani; 4. Capt. James Jardine; 5. Frederick McKenzie; 6. Edward Knight; 7. Charles Victor-Thomas; 8. Oscar Davis; 9. William Maxwell; 10. Robert MacHugh; 11. William Dinwiddie; 12. Frederick Palmer; 13. Capt. Berkeley Vincent; 14. John Bass; 15. Martin Donohoe; 16. Capt. ____;　17. Capt. Carl von Hoffman; 18. ____; 19. ____; 20. ____; 21. Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton; 22. ____; 23. ____; 24. ____; 25. ____.

Dinwiddie was a journalist and a war photographer for Harper's Weekly during the Spanish–American War,^[1] assigned to report and photograph the American campaigns in Cuba and Puerto Rico.^[2]

He was a war correspondent for the New York Herald during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).^[3]

Personal life

William Dinwiddie was twice married. In 1891 he married Mary E Towers, daughter of Chatham Moore Towers and Sallie Lewis Nuckolls. They were the parents of two children: Dorothy and Redfield Towers Dinwiddie. In 1901 he married Caroline Miller Brooke, daughter of William S Brooke and Mary Shoemaker Hallowell.

Selected works

War Sketches in Truth^[2]
Our New Possessions^[2]
The War in the Philippines^[2]
The War in South Africa^[2]

Notes

1 2 Roth, Mitchel P. and James Stuart Olson. (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism, p. 89.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Leonard, John William et al. (1899). Who's who in America, p. 192.
↑ Roth, p. 267.

References

Haverstock, Nathan A. (1996). Fifty Years at the Front: The Life of War Correspondent Frederick Palmer. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-040-3; OCLC 33041795
Leonard, John William and Albert Nelson Marquis. (1899). Who's who in America. Chicago: A. N. Marquis. OCLC 35908327
Roth, Mitchel P. and James Stuart Olson. (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29171-5
The Charleston Gazette. Jun 18, 1934. Charleston, West Virginia. Page 2, column 3. "William Dinwiddie, Newspaperman, Dies"

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